Word: namelessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Director Scola deserves credit for clearly differentiating each decade. From the selection of songs which range in nationality to the careful costuming and attention to detail, the film creates a sense of authenticity that captures the flavor of the era. More importantly, though the actors remain nameless throughout the film, they have little difficulty establishing and altering identities as time progresses. And while the lack of dialogue unavoidably causes the cast to overact, in virtually every case the actors have no trouble striking the proper balance between character and caricature...
TIME'S source is not at all "nameless," but we are bound to honor his request that he not be identified...
...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...
...follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine, told his tenants and servants to come and make water round his château...
...lover of my fellow creatures, a mere nameless worker for the cause-I aspire to be no more. In none of the textbooks of socialism is human affection expressly forbidden...